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MACPA Receives Top Honors from VASTMIAt its annual meeting in November, the Volunteer Accounting Service Team
of Michigan (VASTMI) honored MACPA with its Commitment to Community Award.
MACPA was recognized for its longstanding and extraordinary efforts in
working with VAST to improve community life
in southeastern Michigan.
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President and CEO Peggy Dzierzawski and Cynthia Kopczynski,
MACPA executive vice president of operations, accept the 2004
Commitment to Community Award from Marshall J. Hunt, CPA,
director of VASTMI's Tax Assistance Program. |
In its longstanding relationship with VASTMI,
MACPA has:
- Helped to fund VASTMI's Tax Assistance Program (TAP)
- Provided resources to expand TAP, allowing VASTMI to offer the
benefits of electronic filing to our low-income clients
- Encouraged CPAs to participate in the free tax assistance program
through presentations at CPA meetings and newsletter articles
- Provided CPA volunteers with opportunities to volunteer for tax
assistance throughout Michigan
- Provided exhibit space for VASTMI to promote TAP
- Adopted the TAP Focus:HOPE site during tax season, which enabled
VASTMI to open the Focus:HOPE site ahead of the arrival of the
AmeriCorps team that usually staffs that site
- Provided computers and volunteers for the Focus:HOPE site
- Provided expertise and record-keeping to allow VASTMI to certify
CPE credits for CPA and Enrolled Agent volunteers attending their tax
training.
Last year TAP served 6,805 low-income families in the tri-county area,
returning more than $5.8 million in tax returns and tax credits.
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Financial Literacy
Links
MACPA Financial Literacy Initiatives
This MACPA webpage provides an overview and links for a variety of
MACPA efforts, including the MACPA Accounting Blitz, VASTMI and Hospice of
Michigan programs and CPA Ambassadors.
360 Degrees of Financial Literacy – CPA
Website
To make sure CPAs are prepared to be successful volunteers in their
communities, this website features a host of resources for CPAs
including PowerPoint presentations, financial planning information,
downloadable brochures, a marketing toolkit and more.
360 Degrees of Financial Literacy –
Consumer Website
AICPA consumer website allows visitors to immediately pinpoint the
financial information they need because it is organized by common
life stages that trigger financial issues: childhood, college,
career, military and reserves, couples and marriage, parenthood,
home ownership, entrepreneurs, life crisis, sandwich generation and
retirement.
Sign Up
Register on this
financial literacy volunteer database of CPA volunteers. |
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